Salad Fingers, marauding bears, toads and Russian torch songs: It’s the Silly Sunday Supplement
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
(Nothing to do with anything really but that suits the Silly Sunday Leitmotiv…)
Okay, it’s Sunday. The sun is shining (somewhere behind these bloody clouds anyway) and I’m so not in the mood to read any newspapers today.
So, let’s have some fun instead…
… and let’s start with some very weird video clip indeed:
Trololololololo (Russian torch & torture song…)
I’ve got more where that one came from – and you’d never guess where it did come from, so I’ll tell you.
Chances are none of you here have ever heard of the so-called MBM reports in the Guardian. MBM stands for Minute By Minute (report) and that’s what it is: One reporter with a TV who gives live bloggy comments on football matches (and sometimes cricket or even tennis matches.)
It’s mostly tongue in cheek (if it’s not all out sarcastic) and readers are always cordially invited to send their e-mails (and routinely insulted when they do.)
Sometimes, the reporter (or one of the readers) starts a riff about something or the other – preferably about something that has nothing at all to do with the match being played.
So, a few days ago, readers sent in links of weird & disturbing video clips – and they really came up with some beauties, like this one:
Scary shit.
Less spooky but no less weird was this one. Not exactly a Teddy bears’ picnic but then again, if you cut down all their woods, those bears don’t have any place left to have picnics – or to shit…
… and then whose fault is it when they come to our cities and misbehave?
Here’s that clip:
Okay, enough with the clips already, for now – though I will stick with the weird, if you don’t mind…
… so we will leave the bears to do whatever else they want to do…
… and move on to toads.
Yes, toads – and dead poets, and spendthrift Hull City Councillors:
”In a novel way to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of the poet Philip Larkin, a council is to spend £200,000 on 65 giant fibreglass toads. The oversized amphibians will be displayed at locations around Hull for 10 weeks later this year. According to Hull City Council documents, “This project is designed to spark interest in Larkin’s poetry among people who are made curious by the unexpected presence of their local ‘toad’.” The move is intended to honour Larkin’s two poems, Toads and Toads Revisited.”
(Here are those poems, by the way, if you care about that kind of stuff: Toads & Toads Revisited)
Okay, one last clip, before I go – another Salad Fingers episode. Enjoy:

















